Does anybody else here not give a d*mn about watching sports?

This is really funny. Funny strange, not ha-ha. People all over the world tune into this message board and have so much in common...

Televised sports is so boring I can't even feign interest. I used to golf- and go to Florida Marlin's games- but I'm not watching either on TV. :thumbdn: Doing vs. watching.

Shooting, boating & fishing are my fun zone. Preferably all three.

I invented a sport once- Kite Shooting- but it didn't catch on. :(

Try it sometime. All you need is a box of shells and a 99-cent kite. First one to break the stick wins.... a shredded kite. :thumbup:


Mike
 
Ad Astra said:
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I invented a sport once- Kite Shooting- but it didn't catch on. :(

Try it sometime. All you need is a box of shells and a 99-cent kite. First one to break the stick wins.... a shredded kite. :thumbup:


Mike
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If you like kite shooting, try bull bats at twilight....they're not even close to being threatened or endangered....and when overpopulated, are a resevoir (sp?) for rabies. A smaller guage game.
 
jurassicnarc44 said:
If you like kite shooting, try bull bats at twilight....they're not even close to being threatened or endangered....and when overpopulated, are a resevoir (sp?) for rabies. A smaller guage game.
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I like both these events.
 
When I was in school, I enjoyed the cameraderie of playing sports. I played soccer and basketball in Jr. High School and was always playing in pick up baseball games. In high school I was on the Varsity football and track teams. I loved the competition and the physical exertion.

I never made the transition to spectator sports. While I make a nice living selling expensive TVs and surround systems, I actually suck at sitting in front of a TV and paying attention to what's on it. I can do it for a limited period if I'm watching a movie that's really interesting, or has big guns, boobs or fast cars, but art films are lost on me. I'm shallow that way.

I continue to be amazed at how much so many people invest emotionally and financially in a corporation that markets a professional sports "team". I know I'm not alone as this thread proves, but it continues to amaze me how much of a person's personal identity some folks invest in being a Giants fan. Or a Laker fan, etc...you get the idea.

At work, we have a mostly male organization. My immediate co-workers are nearly all rabid sports fans and love watching whatever game is being televised on a high def big screen. There is one other guy who feels the same as me. We'll be in a meeting and the talk will devolve from business to whatever game was on last night and he and I will look at each other and cross our eyes.

When I was a little younger and spent more time in front of a TV, I did really enjoy watching motorcycle racing, be it motocross or especially Gand Prix racing. To me, those guys are really putting their all into winning and are tremendous atheletes. Their stamina would put most ball and stick game pros to shame. But even there, the attraction is not strong enough to glue me to a couch for any length of time.

Call me wierd, but I just don't get it.
 
I think Sports would be a lot better off if we either let all of them pump up with whatever they wanted, or we had a means of keeping it completely clean.


munk
 
Something else I was completely different from my 12 year older than me brother. Jack was a sportsman thru and thru and I couldn't care less.
I'd rather read than play any kind of sports and when I was a wee lad in elementary school I had rather read than dance with the girls on Wednesday, wasn't that way 10 years later.:D
I maybe could get into this new boxing/kickboxing thing that's sometimes on TV now. From what little I've seen these boys don't farkle around and blood is spilled quite frequently! But I haven't brought myself to set down and watch a whole show, I'm usually switching over to the History, Discovery, or other educational channel.

Barbie and her girls on the other hand are great football and NASCAR fans! We have two TVs in the living room, a 55" large screen with a 200 watt per channel surround sound and then the little 14" fortunately color by my computer.
While Barbie is watching her races or football I'm comfortably ensconced in my computer and whatever I have on to drown out the excess noise coming from the greatbiggoddamnednoisybox at the end of the room.:thumbup: ;) :D :cool:
 
It's gotten to where I despise most pro sports.
Cheating has become part of the "game".
Steroids, corked bats, tweaked carberators. It's all good...and if you get caught just say you didn't know....the mechanic did it or the dr. slipped you something, the drug test was flawed.:jerkit:
 
Soupah and Shappa, I'm with you guys. My son is a sports fanatic. When the Niners were doing well I would watch games with my wife, and I have gone to several Sharks games with my son which are a lot of fun. Mostly it is about spending time with him though, and the game is secondary. We went to several of the playoff games with the Ducks and Oilers in San Jose which was neat. He is a huge Sharks fan and has several jerseys signed by the team and framed, an impressive collection of signed pucks, and other hockey memorabilia.

But at home, other that the NFL playoff games or the Superbowl, I'll go an entire year not watching sports. As far as I'm concerned they should cap all sports salaries at a few hundred K a year and leave it at that. Maybe it would weed out some of the prima donnas and attendant behavior.

I was tall as a kid as well, and everyone always wanted me to play basketball. Until I got to be a junior or senior in high school I was not a very good player, and disliked the whole mindset whereby the jocks were idolized and everyone else played second fiddle. (So far I have sent a "go to hell" to my 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 year HS reunion mailers. I'm surprised they keep coming...)

Growing so fast I also had very bad knees, which were corrected by surgery later. Nothing has changed I guess. The difference is I didn't have the woods to take to, but always dreamed about hunting, shooting or fishing instead.

Norm
 
I only do football myself. But when it comes to football you could call me a nut. Though I don't usually fit into what other people consider the classic football nut. I root for the South. With the exception of Dallas. I love pro and college.

Other sports bore me. Baseball lost me when they were threatening to strike and cancel the World Series while our soldiers were at war. I thought that was despicable, and won't ever be a fan again. Basketball just bores me. The olympics don't get me going either.

Golf, I like to play even though I'm terrible, but watching it is strictly for a sleeping aid.
 
Sports free here...

I love the look on other men's faces when I tell them I don't watch ANY sports.. Sometimes I think they expect me to get in my flying saucer and zoom off to Neptune:D
 
I like to watch boxing, world's strongest man, and timber sports. The rest of it doesn't hold any interest for me.
 
Organized sports is boring to me. I don't understand the hoopla. Never have. I have no need to fill my mind with statistics, numbers and all that stuff.

I often joke with Anne about the game with the "pointy ball" the "small round ball" and "the large brown ball" the "large black and white kick ball."

Every time I display a lack of knowledge about organized sports, Anne tells me how much she loves me! Other men she has known were fanatics. Tennis, golf, football, soccer. Hours and hours in front of a TV, ignoring her except to ask for food and beer.

I might have some interest if I personally knew a player, but even then it would be marginal. Everything seems staged. A step above wrestling programs.

Boring.
 
Stopped watching hockey when I was 12 ... other than that nothing.

... until my son started playing soccer. For 5 years now, I've gone to his games, and after a coach suggested it to him, we started to watch the occasional English game on cable to see how the pros use the field. Then we both got badly hooked on the World Cup.

I don't watch any other sports, but will watch part of a soccer game with Chris maybe once/month now. Amazing what those guys can do with the ball.
 
I don't watch sports on TV either. I think the one exception was the year the Saint Louis Rams won the Super Bowl. Back in college I attended every home football and basketball game (as a member of the band :D ), and had a great time. It's way different when you can heckle the other team in person, and generally act like a fool, which is cool since everybody around you is doing the same stuff. I don't do that at home, even though I wouldn't have to sneak in vodka in a water bottle...

If I have a weakness for entertainment, it's surfing knife and gun forums on the web! Not TV of any kind.
 
Growing up in NC, my brothers and I used to watch a lot of ACC basketball. Still enjoy watching a good match-up during March madness. I used to enjoy watching tennis, epecially during the era when Bjorn Borg ruled Wimbledon (yeah, I'm that old). Never really been a fan of the big three professional team sports. I've gone to the Indy 500 for a number of years, primarily because of a family connection on my wife's side. The only NASCAR races I've ever attended were in Indy. I used to follow NASCAR for a while, but with the movement of that series away from its roots, and especially after the death of Dale Earnhardt, the appeal just isn't there any more. These days, most of my sports-viewing is done from the sidelines of my boys' ball fields.

Eric
 
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